Adding to recs: Pentimento Lillian Hellman
None of it means a damn thing.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Glamcookie - Jan 15, 2005 7:41:10 am PST #6869 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Pix - Jan 15, 2005 8:31:52 am PST #6870 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
t cameo post
Everyone needs to go out and buy Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Gilman. It is wonderful and funny and I am in love with it.
Betsy HP - Jan 17, 2005 6:31:12 am PST #6871 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Charlotte Macleod, a.k.a. Ailsa Craig, writer of "cozy" mysteries (death, yes; blood, no), died in a nursing home at the age of 82.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 17, 2005 6:36:10 am PST #6872 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I really quite liked these
Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn mysteries were about a couple from Boston's Beacon Hill area.
I am sad for her family, but it seems like she really enjoyed her writing and did get a nice long life.
Anne W. - Jan 17, 2005 6:51:52 am PST #6873 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I adored MacLeod's Peter Shandy mysteries. There's part of me that wishes I could have gone to Balaclava Agricultural College.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 17, 2005 8:18:28 am PST #6874 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Huh. I had two waiters at a restaurant last night chat with me about a story that I don't remember from a Stephen King collection that I bought this year. Either it was completely unmemorable despite their enthusiasm, or "1408" freaked me out so much that I've blocked out the whole anthology. (In which case, gee thanks brain—the one story I do remember clearly is the creeptastic one.)
Alicia K - Jan 17, 2005 8:57:14 am PST #6875 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Kristin, I hadn't even heard of that book but saw it at Barnes and Noble yesterday and had to buy it. It looks great!
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2005 2:04:46 pm PST #6876 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm trying to work out if something is a short story or anthology TV -- it was about an OCD guy (the religious sort that think the world will end if they don't do their thing (tap their ear seven times and turn clockwise when a dog barks, or whatever)) who is medicated and cured, except -- the world does start to fall apart. The doctor that cured him can't convince him to go back on his meds, and realises that he needs to become OCD to save the world.
Does this ring bells?
-t - Jan 18, 2005 12:37:18 pm PST #6877 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
ita, I'm almost positive I saw that on TV. I think it was the version of the Twilight Zone that was hosted by Forrest Whitaker, but I can't find any hint of it in any episode guides. There was a particular thing he had to do to keep planes from falling out of the sky, etc., and when the medication kicked in and he stopped doing his rituals, planes fell out of the sky, etc.
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2005 3:08:41 pm PST #6878 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thank you. I was sure it was in colour, which I guess meant recent Outer Limits/Twilight Zone, or my brain. Now I can track it down.